Volume 1 - CH 23

It seems there isn’t a particular limit on the number of monsters I can make into allies. But it seems I need be able to provide for them in order to make them into allies. There are various things to worry about, such as food and lodging.

For the time being I went over to around the cave I used as my first base. I should be able to make a goblin or a wolf ally around there.

I’ll start with a goblin. I found a goblin right away and fought it. I had to defeat it without killing it.

Essentially I need to make the goblin aware that it has been defeated. The goblin sprung at me, so I received it with my sword. The goblin was holding a wooden club. I gave it a kick. Didn’t really expect hand to hand combat to make an appearance here.

After that I continued piling on more damage on it until the goblin was barely tottering in place as it watched me. Did it lose its will to fight? Wait, now how do I turn it into an ally?

I checked monster taming. I could then select a target to use monster taming on. I used it without hesitation. The goblin looked surprised for a moment and looked at me.

“Ga!” It was angry. That was clearly a failure. I tried using monster taming again, but I couldn’t activate it. I wonder if there’s some kind of success rate for it.

The success rate will go up when I level the skill up more, or something. I put that goblin down and set out for the next one. The fight went pretty much the same.

Then it happened while I was fighting against the fifth goblin. When I’d half given up on the skill, the goblin looked at me in surprise and then quickly lowered its club.

…O, oh!? I glanced at the goblin and it returned a friendly look back to me.

Was that a success? While half surprised, I approached the goblin with a bit of caution. The child sized creature took my outstretched hand.

And then it let out a small laugh. “…You fine with being my ally?”

“Gobu!” It nodded its head. I guess we’re a team now? That was pretty hard. I exhaled a bit as I looked at the goblin.

“Hey goblin, do you understand what I’m saying?”

“Gobu.” It seemed to more or less understand. This was my first time talking to anyone in awhile, so I was pretty happy.

“Alright, from today on you are my ally. We’ll face life together!.”

“Gobu!” I put out my hand and the goblin used all its strength to hit it. …Ouch.

“Hey goblin, when I put my hand out like that you’re supposed to shake it.”

“Gobu!”

“No, don’t hit it… it’s a handshake!” I forcibly grasped the goblin’s hand. But the goblin slapped my hand.

Is, is this guy’s brain clogged? I’m a bit worried about leaving any field work, or miscellaneous tasks to it.

Or right, I have the monster training skill, don’t I. Monsters should have something like a status. I checked the goblin’s status with appraisal.

When I tried appraising it during battle all that showed up was its name, but this time was different.

Oh deary me, my child’s a complete idiot. …Well leaving that aside, the intelligence entry is new. There’s nothing like that on my status so it must be exclusive for monsters.

Perhaps that’s the reason. The goblin showed no sign of getting anything I taught it about shaking hands. How should I go about raising its intelligence?

“Hey goblin, a handshake means you put your hand in my hand gently. It means that two people get along with each other.” Well, the goblin’s a monster though. I intend to treat it like a fellow person. It’s my first ally after all. I wanted to make a wolf into an ally next, so I spent awhile searching for one, but I couldn’t seem to find any. The whole time I continued trying to get the goblin to shake my hand.

“Here look, let’s shake hands.” I thought it would slap my hand again, but then the goblin looked at my hand, and then firmly grasped it. “O, ouch! Too much strength! Do it more moderately!”

I scolded the goblin and continued teaching it. However, it continued like before. I checked the goblin’s status.

Its intelligence went up from 1 to 3. This seems to be a fine way of doing this. As I teach it things it will gradually get smarter. This good efficiency is probably the effect of the monster training skill.

…If the monsters are all stupid going forward then monster training might end up being the best pull.

I’m sure the other stats will keep going up like mine. I guess I’ll go make a wolf into my ally too to match this tune.

Oh right, I also have monster evolution technique. I tried it out on the goblin. It didn’t work though. It seems it doesn’t have enough experience points.

…What are experience points? Experience… quantified. Oh yeah, when monsters fight they get stronger accordingly, and then can evolve according to the individual. So basically combat experience then?

Looking at the evolution technique window there seemed to be 3 paths of evolution. This window feels a lot like the one for bestowal magic.

“Goblin, handshake.”

“Gobu!” While I was searching for a wolf, the goblin admirably became able to do a handshake. I checked its status.

Even though it didn’t fight any monsters, in the span that we moved around all its stats went up a bit. …Not that I don’t get why its strength went up. It thoroughly slapped my hand. Was this also thanks to monster training technique? I want to max out its level quickly in that case.

Thinking that, I walked through the forest in search of a wolf to tame.